Hygiene in a SHTF/long term outage situation?

[DoYouRememberJustinBobby]

I've been thinking recently about what we would need hygiene wise if water/electricity was cut off for a few days or even a week. Not so much a mass outbreak of illness because I don't want to be around to deal with that type of thing.

We have some water stored away and a good store of soap too but I do worry that illness could spread quickly without access to hot water and sanitation. I have a chronic illness which means my immune system is shot and I worry about tummy bugs setting me back or making me incapable of looking after my family.

We don't tend to use a lot of bleach in our house but I recently saw it on 3 for 2 in the supermarket so I've stashed away a few bottles in the utility room.
I'm not a fan of wipes but I wonder if it might make sense to have a few packs of anti bac cleaning wipes and toilet roll wipes to make sure everything is kept extra clean.
I also have a few bottles of anti bac gel in our camping box. I don't really go in for anti bac this and anti bac that long term but I think it might well be useful.

What are your plans?

I seem to recall that I plucked that figure from a distant memory - clearly it would depend on size, condition, activity, temperature etc etc etc. Interesting that you didn't touch water for the first 24 though.

I think we didn't drink it because potentially you can spend a long time lost at sea, and you need to keep things going for longer. If it doesn't rain you will die of thirst. There have been cases 100 years or more ago when stranded sailors have killed their ship mates to drink their blood. I think people get very desperate when it gets life or death, and I reckon in a SHTF scenario if you got the might, you will survive because you will over power the weak in order to do so. Natural selection and all that.

I wondered whether it was psychological or physiological. Or just plain down to eking out supplies.